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From: xerox@cs.vu.nl (J. A. Durieux)
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Subject: Re: The TT && "working definition" of intelligence.
Keywords: intelligance, ai, reasoning
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Date: 28 Jun 91 12:21:54 GMT
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>> 	GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM.
>> 
>> a)	The system MUST be able to learn. 
>> b)	The system MUST be autonomous. 
>> c)	The system MUST be able to reason.
>> d)	The system MUST be able to develop self awareness. 

Hmm.  Does this mean that if his illness spreads any further, Stephen
Hawkin ceases to be intelligent, on behalf of (b)?

(I am not sure about the name: I mean the physicist in the wheelchair.)

Or, that none of us is, since we are all critically dependent on thousands
of factors of our environment?  Perhaps the minimal intelligent entity
would be the Sun + the Earth ("only" dependent on general relativity,
quantum mechanics, etc.)?

Perhaps I should rather ask my question directly:
    What the h*ck dou you mean by "autonomous"?